Thinking Aloud!

Sayesha mass-tagged everybody coming to her blog (You see
how cruel she can be!!) and then Sirius
dhishoomed a similar
tag (look at his Dharmendra style comment on the post
below).

First the weird things that I have done at my study place
(originally it was meant to be workplace but I haven’t
worked as yet):

• Sleeping on the
  first bench in class: This started with Physics
  lecture in +2 class. The tone of our teacher was much
  more effective than any sleeping pills and then it
  doesn’t matter where you are sitting. So, it was a daily
  routine and my other classmates found it difficult to
  hide their laughter. Once both me and AKS, were sleeping
  on the very first bench!! And strangely the teacher
  never pointed me out (though when I expanded my sleeping
  profile, our Chemistry teacher once said “Sumit…. get
  out” just plain three words, but they were not
  sufficient to prevent me from sleeping in other
  lectures). After coming to college, its a very common
  scene though I have not found anyone else who can match
  me in sleeping in such a posture that you just can’t
  tell until you sit in front of my seat and look at my
  closed eyes from below.

Rest all the points below are my efforts to stay awake
during the most boring lectures:

• Reading newspaper/magazine:Thanks
  to the people preparing for MBA, I can read 2-3
  newspapers (Mostly Hindu and ET) and 1-2 magazines
  (mostly India Today or Business World) during any
  lecture. Though newspaper are difficult to handle under
  the table but sitting in 4th row makes it easier.
• Eating others’ lunch:
  There are few ladies
  of our class who occasionally bring lunch for hostelers
  and then when they are waiting for the lecture to get
  over, me and R A take our share before others can jump
  in.
• Playing multiplayer games:
  The credit for this
  goes to Bluetooth and Nokia phones. And even Snake looks
  much better when playing in multiplayer mode. And in the
  car racing, I always defeat R A when teacher is in the
  class (though he wins by a huge margine when teacher is
  not there). He is always worried that Prof will throw
  him out of the class and in the process his car goes
  into ditch! Also once in a while even one girl of our
  class is brave enough to race with us while teacher is
  in class!
• Watching movie on laptop:
  This point
  disappointed Sayesha when I told that the movie was
  Pearl Harbour!!
• Listening songs on
  mobile: Here again me and R A have been partners,
  sharing one ear-plug each. Its much easier than what it
  sounds, especially when the Prof doesn’t leave the
  lecture stand.

After reading this tiny list, I am feeling that in my last
(hopefully) year in the college I should try to have more
fun. Isn’t it??

Now the Dhishoomed tag. These are few things which are very
very obvious to me but most of the people find them weird:

• Not preparing for
  MBA: No explanation is needed here. Dunno when it
  was made mandatory that you can’t complete engineering
  without preparing for CAT!! Anyways, I am ready to dump
  BE but just can’t even think about MBA.
• I believe its normal
  to forget anything (including b’days): But seems
  very few people are ready to accept it.
• Have seen only 2
  movies in cinema in past 20 years : and they were
  “Sarbansdani Guru Gobind Singh” and “Shaheed Udham
  Singh” Which we were 
  forced to see in our school. Can’t give any
  precise reason for this but somehow everytime either the
  right place or the right movie or the right person is
  not present and then piracy rocks!!!
• Its easier to wake at 4:00am than being awake up to
  12:00 midnight
• I don’t hate 
  Himesh Reshmiya:
  I don’t watch musical channels, so can’t say about how
  he looks and then in almost all the songs nowadays music
  is the only saving grace. So, I dont have anything
  against him. Can handle his voice because of the
  reasonably good music of most of his songs.
• I like keeping my
  room/table/rack neat: This point looks strange to
  most hostelers.
• Prefer Midtown Madness to NFS and Max Payne/Half
  Life to Doom/Counter Strike and never like to play FIFA/Winning
  Eleven/Cricket: only PC gamers can understand this
  point!!
• Prefer walking (for distances shorter than 2-3kms)
  and cycle (for shorter than 5-6 kms) than car or
  scooter.
• I love Delhi
  : and don’t mind 6 hrs journey, traffic jams, pollution
  etc.
• I hate joke/fwd sms: this explains why I get less
  than 5 sms per day.
• Never forward chain
  mails: yup I have died thousands of times, have
  had hundereds of accidents have lost hundreds of my best
  friends have lost billions of dollars in cash and
  jewellery but even such horrible mishaps could not force
  me to forward any chain mails!!

  So, if you wanna kill me or wanna break any friendship
  or wanna know whether I love my dad or not then please
  send a chain mail and bingo!!

 
posted by Sumit Tada @ 11:32 AM

10 Comments::

 
Smiling Girl said…

Hehe… That was a good weirdo
list.

I identify myself with the forwards and chain mails too..
But the fact is I dont even get 5 sms per day.. :)..

Sleeping… I guess this will trigger a good long post from
me.. wait for it!! I got some real funny ones to tell on
that!:)

And yes.. GOLD!!!

 
11:39 AM, June 25, 2006


   

 
The_Girl_From_Ipanema said…

I also HATE chain emails. But my
desk/room…is a mess!! complete disaster.

sleeping in class? :@ v. bad, v.bad. 

this was a fun list to read. accha likha tune.

 
6:28 PM, June 25, 2006


   

 
Sumit said…

You write so well, maybe i like it
because i can relate to it.

Never tried multiplayer gaming because mine’s a Sony
Ericsson… and not many in my class trust it :p

I’ll be regular from now on.

btw found ur blog thru’ orkut.

 
8:06 PM, June 25, 2006


   

 
Sayesha said…

Hahahaha! Cool list. Lekin Sayesha
and cruel?? :O

 
9:00 PM, June 25, 2006


   

 
Sumit Tada said…

Smiling Lady

Will love to read that, lekin abhi to aapki series bahut
mast lag rahi hai use hi chalne do naa!

TGFI

Arey main kaunsa achha maan ke sota hoon class mein, kya
karen control hi nai hota!!

Sumit

Welcome buddy!!

Aur PEC se ho to Double Welcome!!!

Sony Ericsson Rocks….your classmate must be dumb not to
trust it.

Finally Orkut kuchh kaam to aaya!

Sayesha

Wecome back!!

 
10:43 PM, June 25, 2006


   

 
Sirius Black said…

Wasnt weird at all :-s 

Except i cant make a choice between Midtown or NFS both r
GOOOOOOD.

CS will alwayz b the one for me yaar and MAX payne along
with GTA series is my all time fav.

 
12:15 AM, June 26, 2006


   

 
Sumit Tada said…

Sirius

He he he

Tabhi to kaha hai “Nothing weird about me” 

 
6:33 AM, June 26, 2006


   

 
Sayesha said…

Pehle cruel bola phir welcome
back?? :O

 
8:09 PM, June 26, 2006


   

 
Pramod said…

Hey.. whats wierd in that.. It
looked like i’m reading what all ‘I’ did at college.

Preparing for CAT is nothing but a ‘Bhedchaal’ among
students coz everybody else is preparing for CAT or GRE and
not coz ‘they’ want it. When asked for a reason: “I thing I
have inbuilt managment capabilities.”.. Same answer with
everybody..(don’t know if it was specified in the Times
tutorial)… If they had been in the era of the Gandhi
wherein every other fellow wanted to be a Lawyer or Barister,
I’m sure they would have automaically inheretited those
skills.

I can bet this would be any other college guy (except for
waking up at 4:30 am… I always used to get me neighbours
into trouble when their parents visited the hostel and found
me studing/jogging at 4:00 in morning… They never knew I
used to sleep at 9:00 itself just after supper ;););) …
and they somehow land up at the only day I plan to get up
early ;))

Nice blog to check out 

 
11:12 AM, June 28, 2006


   

 
The_Girl_From_Ipanema said…

kidhar gaya tu? no post wost?

 
7:18 PM, June 29, 2006